Gas Pump in Front of Bleekers Truck Stop Cafe

Photograph

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Broomfield History Collections

Cropped lightly around edges and converted to jpeg from master tiff file by Kevin Smith, 05/24/2017

Name/Title

Gas Pump in Front of Bleekers Truck Stop Cafe

Entry/Object ID

2013.1.18

Description

Black and white photograph print of a gas pump by the Broomfield Post Office and Bleekers Truck Stop Cafe at 7502 120th Street, 1955. The print is 3.5" x 3.5", with two holes at the top edge for posting. The image shows a single gas pump with a hanging sign that prices gasoline at 22 cents per gallon. A car is seen driving down a road to the left of the pump. An open, grassy field is in the background, along with several trees, mountains, and some farm houses. Inscription, in ink, on the reverse side states: "Gas pump in front of Bleekers Truck Stop Cafe 1955. Background - Portion of old Zang Farm [illegible] Broomfield Price of Gas on Pump 22 cts. Picture taken from front of Post Office."

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1955

Place

Location

Broomfield, CO

Notes

Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Farmland, Gasoline pumps

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2013.1.1, 2013.1.10, 2013.1.11, 2013.1.12, 2013.1.13, 2013.1.14, 2013.1.15, 2013.1.16, 2013.1.17, 2013.1.19, 2013.1.2, 2013.1.20, 2013.1.21, 2013.1.22, 2013.1.23, 2013.1.24, 2013.1.25, 2013.1.26, 2013.1.27, 2013.1.28, 2013.1.29, 2013.1.3, 2013.1.4, 2013.1.5, 2013.1.6, 2013.1.7, 2013.1.8, 2013.1.9 Related photographs and papers were originally owned by the Crawford family and later donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013. All material is part of the same photographic and archival collection.

Provenance

Notes

This photograph was originally owned by Robert Crawford, and later donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013 with several other photographs and documents. Much of the material pertains to Robert's father, Miles Crawford, who was Broomfield's postmaster from 1944 to 1966, as well as to the general history of Broomfield from the late nineteenth century onward.